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...last the chap with the scar descended from his Labrador crag, sold the concession to the British government???and all that remained was for the female administration to hush up the scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Standard and Travesty | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...Socialist Government???the first one in five years?took office just nine years to a day after the Treaty of Versailles was signed by Hermann Müller and other Germans, cowed, docile. Hermann Müller was Prime Minister in 1920 for a brief term. His present swaggeringly named Cabinet will probably be revamped when Great Dr. Stresemann is able to be up and active again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Cabinet of Personages | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...morning last week below Capitol Hill and plodded grimly up it. Defying policemen, swarming into the House Office Building, they engulfed the caucus room where some Congressmen were about to hold a hearing on a bill. Neither anarchists nor Anti-Salooners, these lobbyists were white-collar workers in the Government???meek, long-suffering driven to desperation (they said) by "genteel poverty " They told stories of death by starvation, of "coffin and graveyard clubs, of collections for funerals?by-products of life on $1,200 per year. The House Civil Service Committee, to which they protestified was considering, among other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Workers' Lobby | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Churchill. The approach of the crisis synchronized with the great annual politico-business event of the British Government???the presentation of the budget to the House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Winston Churchill stepped up manfully to meet his great occasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Coal Budget | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

Hosts. In South Africa, the scene was set for the reception of the Prince. At the head of the receiving line of a nation of 7,000,000 blacks, yellows, semi-whites, whites, stood three veterans of government???Athlone, Smuts, Hertzog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Royal Ambassador | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

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